Edna Longley Quotes:

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

source: - "The SRB Interview: Edna and Michael Longley". SRB interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.

Topics: Writing, Thinking, Literature, Articulation

Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.

source: - "The SRB Interview: Edna and Michael Longley". Scottish Review of Books Interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.

Topics: Writing, Artist, Self

Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up the national culture, in a way that the literary texts don't. Poetry can bring out areas of denial and repression.

source: - "The SRB Interview: Edna and Michael Longley". SRB interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.

Topics: Culture, Denial, Way, National Culture